Wading Into Murky Territory: Hunting for Storylines at an Academic Conference
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2023
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North American Study Group on Ethnomathematics
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In this paper we share a process for identifying storylines from the Mathematics Education in Indigenous and Migrational contexts (MIM) conference in November 2022. Drawing from the scheduled presentations and the informal discussions that took place, we identified three connecting storylines: ‘We need more space’, ‘There will be tensions’ and ‘Perhaps it is okay to be uncomfortable’. By examining these three threads, we suggest there is an underlying storyline that connects them: ‘The need for change in the ways we approach teaching, learning, and researching school mathematics’. This process surfaced questions about the relationship between positionality, personal identity and the identification of storylines.